A Study on the Designing of Seika-en

Abstract

Seika-en, which is called “The Flower Field”, was made as a villa garden of Matsuura family, the feudal lord of Hirado (now in Nagasaki prefecture), by Matsuura 35th. In the garden, a monument revealing 10 most impressive scenes of Seika-en shows us the pastsight of the garden. According to the monument, the garden was completed in 1810 afterremoving old trees for 20 years. The designing of the garden is original one, featuring European style flower bed. I studied on the designing of Seika-en through historical materials, pictorial drawings, and field survey.